Chapter 253

On the wall, the cold wind from the North blows, which indicates that the next winter is coming.

Choosing this period of time, we can take advantage of the lack of time to seriously attack the barbarian logistics.

Niu Zhen and Lu Fei took two thousand cavalry into the grassland in two ways, while Luo Xin stayed in Cangzhou City to deal with the barbarian cavalry who might come to harass and prevent the construction of the new city wall.

Seeing Niu Zhen and others disappear in the sky, Xiao Ming looks complicated. This is the real test of Niu Zhen and Lu Fei. Whether these soldiers can come back this time is unknown.

"Zhan Xingchang, start digging trenches." Xiao Ming said.

Xiao Ming's plan is divided into two parts this time. The first part is to send cavalry to fight guerrillas on the grassland, so that the barbarian cavalry are too busy to take care of Cangzhou City.

The second is to dig trenches outside the new town, arrange catapults and throw powder cans to prevent the barbarians from attacking.

This time, Zhan Xingchang had more than 10000 slaves in charge of the construction. He also invested a lot of money to hire local people. Now, there are 30000 people participating in the construction of the new city wall.

The slaves in charge of construction will be responsible for the construction of the city walls, while these people will be responsible for transporting materials and digging ditches outside, which do not need technical content.

Under the command, Zhan Xingchang immediately ordered the people out of the city and dug a continuous ditch within 500 meters of the new city wall.

The Cangzhou army, on the other hand, placed 200 more catapults in the city on the platform reserved for the trench, and then projected powder cans on the barbarians who rushed into the trench.

Now Cangzhou City has enough gunpowder cans and artillery support. If the barbarians want to break through this barrier, they must pay a great price.

people in the city carried the hoe, spade and other tools out of the city, and Hsin Hsing went along with them. Xiao Ming was the foundation of the new wall with slave craftsmen.

Like the old city wall, the new city wall is 500 meters long. More than 10000 craftsmen are distributed in the 500 meters position, and nearly 20 craftsmen can be assigned to each meter.

Without modern machinery, Xiao Ming can only make up for it with manpower.

The height of the wall is 20 meters and the width is 8 meters. Within 500 meters, there will be a fort protruding 6 meters forward every 10 meters. The area of each fort is large enough to install six guns. The six guns can not only shoot the enemies outside, but also shoot the enemies climbing the wall.

In this way, only the guns installed on the fort can hold 300 guns, not including the guns between the battlements and the guns between the city walls.

If this fortress style wall is built, it is basically equivalent to a huge sail warship crossing between two mountains.

"Dig!"

A loud bugle sounded, and the slave craftsmen immediately began to dig in groups of 20. This time, the foundation of the wall was only five meters deep. If the barbarians wanted to blow up the wall, they had to dig.

Tens of thousands of people are busy, but Xiao Ming is not idle. He shuttles among the slave craftsmen, carefully checking the excavation of the foundation.

Unlike modern excavators, which can dig a five meter deep ditch in half an hour, 20 people are responsible for the foundation within one meter. From morning to night, the foundation is one meter wide, eight meters long and five meters deep.

In the evening, when the sun sets, tens of thousands of people withdraw to the city together. At this time, the trench excavation outside is also completed.

At this time, Xiao Ming could not help feeling that in the ancient times without modern machinery, there were many people and great power, and the population was always the first resource.

"Your Highness, according to the experience of these days, the barbarian cavalry usually arrive on the third day." Zhan Xingchang went to the city wall with worry in his eyes.

The frequent harassment of the barbarians seriously affected his plan, which made him very upset.

Because of this, when Xiao Ming arrived in Cangzhou in person, he was determined to continue to push forward the plan even if he fought with the barbarians again.

Black night gradually shrouded the grassland. Xiao Ming said, "I just hope Niu Zhen and Lu Fei won't let me down."

Zhan Xingchang nodded after hearing the speech. This time he sent Niu Zhen and Lu Fei to beat the barbarians and disturb the plan of the barbarians.

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In the vast grassland, there are only a few cold stars in the sky, and there is not a trace of moonlight. Since he and niuzhen split up, Lufei and his cavalry searched the grassland for barbarian tribes.

When night fell, he saw the bonfire not far away from the telescope.

"Come with me and see how many people there are in this tribe?" Said Luffy.

The named soldier answered the call and crept to the campfire with Lu Fei.

Although the land of Youzhou was settled by the blood wolf tribe, according to the customs of the barbarians, the blood wolf tribe is formed by many small tribes, which will get their own pasture.

At this time, the grassland was dark, and no one could see clearly except the campfire.

Luffy and his soldiers approached the barbarian tribe without anyone noticing.Around the campfire, these savages are roasting cattle and sheep, laughing, drinking and eating meat.

"Damn, these barbarians have a good life. They eat meat and drink wine every day. They are much happier than Laozi." Lufei's nose is twitching. The smell of meat makes his mouth water.

"Xiaowei, you can see that there are only over 500 bags. It seems that this is a small tribe with only a thousand people in it. What are you waiting for? Just grab the meat and eat it."

The soldier behind Lu Fei said that his name was Lei Ming. It was the Youzhou soldier who asked Xiao Ming about Guan Ning's cavalry in the last Cangzhou war.

After that, he was incorporated into the cavalry. All the soldiers Lu Fei took were from Youzhou, which was the guanning cavalry Xiao Ming wanted to build.

"Hey, this is to my taste. Go back. Since your highness wants us to fight guerrilla warfare, we'll give him a night attack." Said Luffy.

Thunder nodded bloodthirsty. This used to be their hometown. No one knew more about the pain of their hometown being occupied by foreign enemies than they did. Therefore, they hated the barbarians more than anyone else.

With the soldiers to find out the situation, Lufei and others sneak back.

"Captain, are you going to attack now?" Someone asked.

"I'm going to fart. Of course, I'll wait until midnight when they are all asleep. Remember, this time we don't ride a horse, but we'll sneak through. When we get into the tent, we'll kill all of them." Said Luffy.

"Yes." Said the soldiers, suppressing their voices.

Lu Fei looked at the campfire in the distance and touched his telescope. This time, he could find the tribe ahead of time, but not by the tribe. It was only through this telescope.

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